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Comment on Geography, Poverty and Health Care by Xavier Sindoni

Xavier Sindoni — Sun, 26 Feb 2012 07:29:33 +0000

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Comment on The Untold Story on PBS – The High Health Care Costs of Poverty by karmabinah

karmabinah — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 00:22:45 +0000

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Comment on The Untold Story on PBS – The High Health Care Costs of Poverty by Emmanuel Pohoreski

Emmanuel Pohoreski — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 22:20:03 +0000

The following study demonstrating lack of marriage and child poverty may be of interest on the poverty issue: http://www.heritage.org/research/reports/2010/09/marriage-america-s-greatest-weapon-against-child-poverty

Strength of community serves to help strengthen marriage, and in this fashion may provide a mechanism to help reform health care, reducing overall costs.

Comment on The Untold Story on PBS – The High Health Care Costs of Poverty by buzcooper

buzcooper — Fri, 17 Feb 2012 14:46:35 +0000

Walter Tsou has offered a good idea – poor communities have smart but not necessarily trained individuals who can provide needed services for others and save the system far more than they cost, while the system creates employment. This is exactly what Jack Geiger demonstrated in communities in the Mississippi Delta several decades ago. There are other good ideas, too, but none will surface if the problem of poverty is denied. Tell your friends at Dartmouth and the Commonwealth Fund that their efforts to achieve support for ACOs and Shared Decisionmaking should not be at the expense of finding solutions to the high health care costs of poverty.

Comment on The Untold Story on PBS – The High Health Care Costs of Poverty by Walter Tsou

Walter Tsou — Fri, 17 Feb 2012 13:43:37 +0000

Bravo for raising this point and putting the documentary in perspective. Interestingly, good coordinated care can work in impoverished areas, but it takes more time and resources. But the good news is that it could be a great job creator and allow neighbors educating neighbors to pull themselves out of poverty while lowering health care costs. That is the real missing ingredient in health care delivery – a robust community based care system, esp. in impoverished neighborhoods.

Comment on The Untold Story on PBS – The High Health Care Costs of Poverty by Katherine Ellington (@katellington)

Katherine Ellington (@katellington) — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 17:32:30 +0000

I was in there in the audience when you made your point of view and feelings known during the screening. SES and health disparities continue to be unaddressed on a large scale in health care leaving patients and communities to suffer. Your comments had a profound impact and I’m glad for your post here.

Comment on THE HILLY TERRAIN OF HEALTH CARE by Robert W. Geist MD

Robert W. Geist MD — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 11:17:29 +0000

Buzz, another great post. Thanks, Bob

Comment on MedPAC, Poverty and Geographic Variation in Health Care by jubaidcheess

jubaidcheess — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 22:30:28 +0000

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